Lainaus käyttäjältä: hlam - joulukuu 06, 2010, 14:26:50 ip
This rotting is completely natural. If you prune a branch, everything above the furthest out node (the bit where new leaves will come from) will slowly die - this excess plant tissue is useless to the plant, because this tissue has nothing to carry nutrients to or from. However, everything below the furthest out node will remain alive and healthy, because it is required to carry nutrients to and from the leaves/branches growing at that node. Does this make sense?

Thanks, this is the new foto of my LD and I hope, that this "rotting" will not continue. In summer I will cut off the dead part of the branch.

I am here with the fotos.. 

yes, roots were pruned, the plant was repoted from hydroponics, so it was in expanded clay. And I have my bonchis under CFL so light should not be the problem.

Last year, it was the same. The plant started to grow new branches, leaves, but the ends of the cuted branches and stem dryed up.

well, I will take some photos and post them here.

Hi, last year I made 4 bonchis, but one of them, my lemon drop bonchi died. I did grow LD again this year. Last week I cutted the plant down, but, the same problem as last year showed up.

The ends of branches and the end of the stem, where the cuts are made started to dry up and turned colour from green to brown/black. This year I tried to use healing balsam but so far I can see no difference comparing last year.

anybody familiar with this? thanks

Hi, I am here with some fotoup and also ask for advice..

I recently made few waterfarms, pics are bellow.. My problem is, that the ring did not give solution to all area of the pot.. I guess, that there will be some dry spots in it. Anyone who grows chilli in waterfarms? can you give me some advices.. thanks

maturing Rainbow bonchi


Lemon Drop, C.Rhomboideum


Lance, CAP 1144


homemade waterfarms

Some fotoup..

Lance has absolutelly the slowest grow..

tomorrow it will be three weeks.. 

I am going skiing tomorrow, for a week, so maybe i will be surprised after comming back home.. I hope.. 

Hi lee, great list of seeds.. May I ask you, how long did take the germination of CAP1144 last year? I was not sucesfull yet

Hi, I would like to present you my new chilli season.. I did choose these vars to grow this year:

C.lanceolatum
C.Rhomboideum
CAP 1144
Lemon Drop

all from seeds and all in hydroponics- homemade waterfarms..

and
Habanero Red
Habanero Chocolate
Habanero white
Scotch bonet Y.
bolivian rainbow

all from bonchis and all in soil. I plan to turn my bonchis into proper plants again. I hope they will make thicker stems 

germinating started at 8.1 2010..

successfulness:
Rhomb 3/5
Lance 5/5
Lemon Drop 2 / many (dont now if something is wrong with the seeds)
CAP 1144 0/10 



Rhombs


Lances


Lemon


bonchis


best one- habanero red

last year I had my ebb cca 25cm deep, now I know that it was just waisting with water and fert. This year I will grow my plants in homemade water farm. I thought that I will use the same "pot" like last year. It was 80x50x30cm and aproximatelly 60l of expanded clay in it.

Lainaus käyttäjältä: Fatalii - tammikuu 05, 2010, 06:33:46 ap

I would suggest not to use clay as much.  (deep)
With ebb, only 10cm or so has been enough for all of the chile varieties I've tried with it so far.
That will save a lot of clay and also nutrient as you don't have to raise it so high.

and how about other systems? like waterfarm?

thanks

that is instruction for operating waterfarm wrom official site of General Hydroponics...

"OPERATION
For moisture-loving plants, operate your WaterFarm pump continuously. Plants
preferring drier conditions grow best when the pump runs for 1/2 hour on and 1
hour off during daylight hours; off at night (a simple timer will turn the pump on
and off for you automatically). Use mild to normal strength nutrient solution and
avoid strong or aggressive nutrient. As your plants consume nutrient solution, the
level in the reservoir will drop. Top off with half strength solution or plain water
(the pump is more efficient when the reservoir is full). It is necessary to change the
water and nutrients every one to two weeks depending upon the size of your plants
and their rate of growth; with bigger plants change more often. Simply empty the
reservoir by rotating the blue drain level tube 90 degrees so water drains on the
ground, or indoors in a pail. When changing or topping off solution, pour directly
over the Clay Pebbles (rather than into the reservoir itself) to flush out excess salts"

Well, in ebb I had 3 or 4 cycles a day, 15min each. I have to change my ebb system into something else next season and this waterfarm sounds good for me. But if the pump has to go all day long I guess, I would not go for it.
But I really think, that that is not nessesary. Of course.. set up the system for more cycles 5 or 6 maybe more and maybe, just maybe give a small air pump into reservoir with solution and buble it a little just before the cycle begin.

But maybe everything I wrote is wrong. But hope not    I think that here has to be someone who tried this kind of hydroponics.. maybe Fatalli can bring some light into this..

Do you really think, that this is nessesary? Have experience with ebb and expanded clay hold moisture for a long time... so I thought that maybe few cycles a day should be enough..

Hi, very nice setup..  just have a question.. how often did you drip the plant?   thanks

I choosed varieties for next year..

C. lanceolatum (C. lanceolatum)
C. rhomboideum (C. ciliatum)
Ulupica, Large (C. cardenasii var. pendulum)
Early Jalapeno
Chinese chilli pot


any experiences with them? thanks

well I followed your recomendation and cut them more..









and next

Hi, I am here with some pics:
my latest yeald


and my bonchis attepmts
all


Lemon drop


Serrano


Habanero red


Habanero white


Habanero chocolate


Scotch bonet


Hot scherry


Rainbow

Today I cutted down my plants in EBB, leaving just stems. I will keep them in hydroponic system till some foliage grows. Should I give them just fresh water or add in solution some ferts?

thanks for advices

2ml/l- floramicro; 1ml/l- floramato